cabrillear
Spanish, verb/kabɾiʝeˈaɾ/
cabrillear is spelled C-A-B-R-I-L-L-E-A-R (10 letters). Cabrillear is a Spanish verb meaning “to glimmer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Hablando del mar, es formarse, levantarse, manifestarse el pequeño oleaje que producen las cabrillas. La…”.
What does cabrillear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to glimmer
- 2
to produce small waves
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Hablando del mar, es formarse, levantarse, manifestarse el pequeño oleaje que producen las cabrillas. La acción determinada por este verbo es la que sigue en orden a las significadas por los de pintar y rizar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cabrillear
- cabrilleo first-person present singular
- cabrilleé first-person preterite singular
- cabrilleado participle past
- cabrilleando gerund
- cabrilleada feminine participle past
- cabrilleados masculine participle past
- cabrilleadas feminine participle past
- cabrilleas indicative informal present
- cabrilleás indicative informal present
- cabrillea indicative present singular
- cabrilleamos first-person indicative plural
- cabrilleáis indicative plural present
- cabrillean indicative plural present
- cabrilleaba first-person imperfect indicative
- cabrilleabas imperfect indicative second-person
- cabrilleábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- cabrilleabais imperfect indicative plural
- cabrilleaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabrillear?
- /kabɾiʝeˈaɾ/
- [ka.β̞ɾi.ʝeˈaɾ]
- [kaβ̞ɾiʝeˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cabrillear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.